Two historians, formerly teacher and student, share their research discoveries and family stories connected to the Spanish Civil War through the lenses of family history, politics, labor, and migration. Daniel Czitrom taught at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts for 41 years and Patricia Schechter currently teaches at Portland State University in Oregon. Czitrom’s book is a memoir entitled Kitchen Table History: Wrestling with my Family’s Radical Past and Schechter’s book is a study of an important mining town in Andalusia titled El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939.
In searching for relatives whom they’ve never met, Daniel and Patricia explore the stories and silences kept in Spanish graveyards, burial sites, and cemeteries that they visited during their research.
Published 10/01/24
There is the book you want to write. Then there is the book you ended up writing. The co-hosts reflect on their historians’ journey and the sometimes stubborn, sometimes sacred silences they encountered along the way.
Published 10/01/24
The personal is the political, except when it’s not. Sometimes the need for survival is a driver.
Published 10/01/24